Henry’s Honey and Honeycomb

I had two harvests in June of honey from wild/feral hives. In these situations, bees store pollen (their source of protein) next to the honey, and it all gets mixed together when harvesting. This gives the honey a unique rich flavour and cloudy colour. The pollen can trigger crystalization of the honey, which is why it is always filtered out from supermarket honey… Batch 31 and 32 will therefore crystalize more quickly than other honey, so eat it quickly! (or heat it up to melt it)

Batch 31: Harvested from a wild hive living in a wall cavity in Dee Why. They came in through a crack at the window frame. They made over 15kg of honey between November 2022 and June 2023. At least 10,000 bees lived here, now relocated to Neutral Bay:

Batch 32: Harvested from a wild hive that moved into a possum box in Paddington. In the centre photo below, the upper left corner is all honey. The lower right corner is all brood (bee eggs/larvae), at least 5,000 bees lived here since the spring. These bees are also now living in Neutral Bay:

Batch 23 – 29: These were the last autumn harvests, primarily from my apiaries in Neutral Bay and Huntley’s Cove. It was a slow spring, so I did not have a mid-summer harvest. Therefore, the autumn harvest came from a wider mix of nectar/honey from spring flowers (lots of pale jacaranda from the trees at Forsyth Park) and summer flowers (generally darker honey from paperbark, eucalyptus, bottlebrush, etc).

General Honey Information

Henry’s Honey is harvested from my bee hives in Mosman, Cremorne, Neutral Bay, Riverview and Huntley’s Cove.

-Honey is raw (unheated) preserving natural amino acids, enzymes, and antioxidants

-Honey is strained (not filtered) preserving all natural pollen

-Most of my honey is single-hive, preserving the unique characteristics of nectar available to the bees in the local area.

At Forsyth Park in Neutral Bay, you will find 100+ lavender plants that I planted and maintain. You can now taste lavender in some batches of my honey from Neutral Bay. There are also leptospermum plants in the park (near the old stone hut) that are specifically chosen to produce Manuka honey.

You can buy honey from the Ellie May’s coffee shop at Cammeray Square or at my home: Unit 2, 39 Lower Bent Street, Neutral Bay

If you live between Mosman and Hunters Hill, I can deliver honey to you at no extra cost when I inspect my hives.

Please save jars for me (honey, jam, pasta sauce, mustard, etc). I can collect them when you have a couple boxes full, or you can drop then at my home anytime (become one of my “jar fairies”)

This is how the bees build their combs if they do not have frames to guide them…

This is my “best” apiary, in Huntley Cove (Hunters Hill). Most of my hives are in small backyards with neighbors nearby.

My Eurpopean Honeybees are of the “caucasia” subfamily of “Apis mellifera”. They are not native to Australia, but have been here for 180 years… We would not have almonds, apples, cherries, melons, broccoli, or blueberries without them.

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